WELLNESS
ARE YOU THE DRIVER OR THE PASSENGER IN YOUR LIFE? BY KIM RAAIJMAKERS
Does life happen TO you or FOR you? This may sound like a weird question because life just happens, right? Wrong! There are two ways to live and experience life. 1. Living in the effect of your life (the TO), or 2. You are being the cause of your life (the FOR). Do you look and bemoan the circumstances of your life, frustrated by what you’re experiencing, complaining about what your life is like right now? Or you may be thinking “I’m not complaining, so this isn’t me?”. Let me ask: Are you thinking it is fine, things are good just the way they are? So what does it look like if you’re living as you being the cause of your life? You are driving what your life looks like. You may ask, what about when hard circumstances 20
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come up? Bad things happen, do you deserve what happened then, because how can bad things happen for you? Yes things happen, situations come up AND you determine how you respond, you make changes and you CHOOSE how this will take you closer to designing your life in the greatest possible way? As an example, look at Michael J. Fox, who has taken his Parkinson’s disease diagnoses and made it his life purpose to help millions of others in the same condition. He chose to respond and create a gift out of what happened and make it work for him. So let me ask again.
